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Author Konvitz, Josef W

Title Cities & the Sea : Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe / Josef W. Konvitz
Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Origins and Practice of Port City Planning -- The 16th Century Background -- Seaworthy Cities: Planning in the Expanding European World of the 17th Century -- The New Port Cities of France, 1660-1720 -- The Search for New Port Cities in France -- The Government Proceeds to Plan -- Civic Order and Patterns of Growth in the New Cities -- The Decline of Port City Planning -- Port City Planning after the 17th Century
Notes Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License
Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1978
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Port cities -- Europe -- History
City planning -- Europe -- History
Port cities.
City planning.
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421434629
1421434628